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Fact File About Arthur Lydiard.

Arthur Lydiard

Quick Fact 1: He was born on July 6 1917, Auckland, New Zealand.
Quick Fact 2: He created a training method that went worldwide.

Quick Fact 2: He came 2nd at the 1949 national marathon championships.

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Arthur Lydiard. A New Zealand running coach and athlete. Born on July 6 1917, Auckland, New Zealand. He is well known for his training method named the “Lydiard Method”.

The Lydiard Method quickly became worldwide and had a significant impact around the world. Many other athletes have found success through his training.

He sadly passed away due to a heart attack in Houston, Texas on 11 December 2004, aged 87. He will be remembered for popularising distance running.

Let’s Vote on It!

 

Task description: This week for reading we have been learning to summarise the main ideas into our own words and finding the key ideas from what we have read. For this task we had to create a story web that shows the main characters, plot and setting of our play from the week. This play is about a King who can’t make descisions and they have to vote on what to do with the monster destorying the city. Check out my story web shown above.